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J. HUEFNER. APPLE BEELER, CUTTER, AND GORER.

N0. 508 3'7. Patented Nov. '7, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JACOB HUEFNER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

APPLE PEELER, CUTTER, AND CORER.

-1'TPEGIFIGA'JIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,137, dated November '7, 1893.

Application filed January 31, 1893- Serial No. 460,404. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:.

Be it known that I, JACOB HUEFNER, a citizen of Germany, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apple Peelers, Cutters, and Oorers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the operation of peeling, coring and cutting into pieces various fruits, such as apples, potatoes and the like, and the invention consists in the improved machine for performing the several operations, and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts thereof, as herein set forth and finally pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in each of the several 1 views where they occur, Figural represents,

in elevation, an 'apple-peeler, corer and cutter embodying my improvements. Fig. 2, is a section of the same taken through the line w, the knives being shown in diagram. Figs. 3 and 4. are sections taken through the lines y and z, respectively, and Fig. 5 is a top plan view, slightly enlarged, of the back plate and the means for attaching it to the frame.

In said drawings A, B, O, designate a frame in which the working parts are mounted and D, a thumb-screw for securing-the machine to a table or support E.

F, designates a threaded shaft mounted in bearings, a, b, and provided, at its inner end, with a fork 0, upon which. the apple or other fruit is impaled and supported. The fork is prevented from piercing the apple too far by a collar d, located on the shaft at the rear of said fork, as will be understood upon reference to Fig. l.

G, designates the peeler-carrier and e, the

knife, by which the skin is removed from the fruit; said knife being held in place by a screw, 6, or other suitable fastening. Said peeler-carrier is pivotally mounted upon an arm,f, and works upon a pivotal pin or rod, g, at the end of said arm, from side to side thereof, its movement being limited by the downwardly projecting end, h, of said carrier, as indicated in Fig. 3. Said arm fis pivotally secured to a portion of the frame, at f, and is capable of a reciprocal vertical movement, as indicated in said Fig. 3; the knife being held in contact with the fruit by means of a coiled spring, 2', Fig. 1.

H, designates a coring and cutting or splitting knife, which consists of a centrally-arranged annular bladeor cutter j and a series of two or more (in the present case sixteen) straight blades k radiating therefrom to an outer rim Z, which said blades are soldered or otherwise firmly secured by any suitable means. Said rim Z, is secured to, or forms a part of, a back-plate m which is secured to the rear end of the machine in any suitable manner. In the present case said back-plate is provided with dove-tail tongues or tenons as shown in Fig. 5 which fit and slide between double uprights rt, so that said plate and the knife may be removed and replaced by others having more or less blades; as will be understood upon reference to Figs. 1 and 2.

It will be observed, by referring to Figs. 1 and 4., that the screw-thread upon the shaft registers with a clutch c pivotally secured to and at one side of the bearing 17, the latter not being threaded, but, permitting the threaded portion of the shaft to work freely therein; whereby the said clutch may be thrown out of gear with said thread, when the peeling, &c., has been accomplished, and the shaft be pulled back to its initial position without being rotated, as will be understood. The core or fruit may be forced from the fork by a pusher d, Fig. 1, one end of which is movably mounted upon said shaft, the body working through a notch or opening, 0, in the collar d; the opposite end lying at the base of the fork, as shown in said Fig. 1. The fruit is forced off by pulling smartly backward upon the shaft until the end of the pusher, engaging the bearing a, is pressed back against the collar d, as will be understood. After an apple has been peeled the ICO shaft is thrust forward, pressing the apple against the blades or cutters j and it until it is pressed entirely through the knife H, thereby separating the core and cutting or splitting the apple or other fruit intoa number of pieces, as will be obvious.

If it be desired to split and core the fruit without peeling it the peeling knife may be removed or thrown out of contact with the fruit, as will be understood, or if it be desired to core, without splitting the fruit, the splitting blades may be removed, or to split without coring the knife may be changed acc0rdingly, as will be manifest.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

In combination, a frame, one end of which is provided with bearings, and the opposite end is provided with vertical double uprights, n, a longitudinally movable shaft journaled JAooe I-IUEFNER.

Witnesses:

OLIVER DRAKE, FRIETZ REICHSTETTER. 

